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Welcome to Growth Resources

The resources on this website offer detailed background and scientific information on GRI's research framework, assessment techniques, and the adaptive profiles. They contribute to a larger effort to enhance individual and organizational performance by using more objective data on people.

We hope the resources answer your questions; however, they are more academic than practical and cannot provide the hands-on experience needed to learn and apply the adaptive profiles. For effective learning, a masterclass experience facilitated by experts is essential. Similar to learning a new sport or musical instrument, you will need real-world practice to challenge the techniques you already use and to deepen your understanding of people, their teams, and their companies through the profiles.

The masterclass will help you learn and apply your new knowledge at the same time. Contact Growth Resources or one of its affiliates to learn more about GRI's masterclass, management tools, and platform.

Performance Revisited

What organizational performance means.
Review of various performance approaches.
How performance and non-performance are assessed with adaptive profiles.
Definition of an organization's strategic and social performance.
Managing the organization's performance.

Social Behavior and More

The many characteristics we use when assessing people.
The big 7 of personality.
Details on Social performance, values, and intelligence.
Techniques used to assess individual characteristics.
Classification of techniques.

From Parallel to Statistics-Based Techniques

The nature and role of assessment techniques in organizations.
Standards for comparing techniques redefined.
Utility of assessment techniques redefined.
Assessment techniques components under scrutiny.
What adaptive profiles tell.

Far-Reaching Applications

Practical and abstract uses of techniques and their various effects.
Use in organizational development, leadership, management, and recruitment.
Use in coaching, clinical settings, and for medium effect.
Theoretical use in self- and social-awareness, and learning.
Pragmatic use of assessments; their language and signs.

The Power of Signs

Signs for understanding people and their organizations.
Fundamentals of semiotics.
Adaptive profiles as signs and part of a broader picture.
Signs produced by assessment techniques.
Developing new, effective meanings of signs.

General Framework

Objectives and use of the framework
Framework's antecedent, independent, and dependent variables
Framework development over its three steps
How to test the framework
Benchmarking assessment techniques

Quick Links

Performance - Individual Characteristics and Assessment Techniques - Assessment Tools - Articles - Notes - Rowing Study W U25 2016

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 =Welcome to Growth Resources=
-The resources accessible from this page are shared by the Growth Resources Institute to help you continue to develop individual and organizational performance by deepening your understanding of the adaptive profiles and how they relate to other knowledge in our field.
+[[File:GRI Logo_Framed.png|right|220px]]
+The resources on this website offer detailed background and scientific information on GRI's research framework, assessment techniques, and the adaptive profiles. They contribute to a larger effort to enhance individual and organizational performance by using more objective data on people.
-The content is more theoretical and technical than practical. Using GRI's adaptive profiles and methods requires learning that starts with understanding your own profile and what you can do with it, most often in a business context with a leadership role. The experience provided by GRI's masterclass is central to learning and applying adaptive profiles in their many applications.
+We hope the resources answer your questions; however, they are more academic than practical and cannot provide the hands-on experience needed to learn and apply the adaptive profiles. For effective learning, a masterclass experience facilitated by experts is essential. Similar to learning a new sport or musical instrument, you will need real-world practice to challenge the techniques you already use and to deepen your understanding of people, their teams, and their companies through the profiles.
-Like learning a new instrument, sport, or cooking, and even more so when learning about people, including their relationships and organizations, you'll need a minimum of time to practice in real situations and with people you think you already know well.
+The masterclass will help you learn and apply your new knowledge at the same time. Contact Growth Resources or one of its affiliates to learn more about GRI's masterclass, management tools, and platform.
-More than just learning, GRI offers you the opportunity to relearn much about people that seems immediate, obvious, but indeed will challenge your perceptions, intuition, and knowledge you already built and trust. Contact Growth Resources or one of its affiliates if you would like to learn GRI tools and methods.
-=Performance=
+=[[Performance_Models | Performance Revisited]]=
-[[File:Performance_Models.png|right|200px]]
+[[File:Home_Performance.png|right|230px]]
-* What organization performance means and how to manage it.
+* What organizational performance means.
 * Review of various performance approaches.
 * How performance and non-performance are assessed with adaptive profiles.
 * Definition of an organization's strategic and social performance.
+* Managing the organization's performance.
-=Assessment Techniques=
+=[[ Individual_Characteristics | Social Behavior and More]]=
-[[File:Assessment Engine.png|right|200px]]
+[[File:Home_Individual Characteristics.png|right|230px]]
+* The many characteristics we use when assessing people.
+* The big 7 of personality.
+* Details on Social performance, values, and intelligence.
+* Techniques used to assess individual characteristics.
+* Classification of techniques.
+=[[Assessment_Techniques | From Parallel to Statistics-Based Techniques]]=
+[[File:Assessment Techniques.png|right|230px]]
 * The nature and role of assessment techniques in organizations.
-* Standards for comparing techniques redefined
+* Standards for comparing techniques redefined.
-* Utility of assessment techniques redefined
+* Utility of assessment techniques redefined.
-* Assessment techniques components under scrutiny
+* Assessment techniques components under scrutiny.
 * What adaptive profiles tell.
-=Individual Characteristics=
+=[[Assessments_Potential_Uses | Far-Reaching Applications]]=
-[[File:Patchwork_Performance.png|right|120px]]
+[[File:Home_Potential Uses.png|right|230px]]
-* Characteristics and how we assess them.
+* Practical and abstract uses of techniques and their various effects.
-* The big 7 with social behavior, values, and intelligence being detailed
+* Use in organizational development, leadership, management, and recruitment.
-* The many more characteristics we use to assess people. A classification.
+* Use in coaching, clinical settings, and for medium effect.
+* Theoretical use in self- and social-awareness, and learning.
+* Pragmatic use of assessments; their language and signs.
+=[[ Language_and_Signs | The Power of Signs]]=
+[[File:Home_The Power of Signs.png|right|230px]]
+* Signs for understanding people and their organizations.
+* Fundamentals of semiotics.
+* Adaptive profiles as signs and part of a broader picture.
+* Signs produced by assessment techniques.
+* Developing new, effective meanings of signs.
+=[[ General_Framework | General Framework]]=
+[[File:GRI Research Framework.png|right|230px]]
+* Objectives and use of the framework
+* Framework's antecedent, independent, and dependent variables
+* Framework development over its three steps
+* How to test the framework
+* Benchmarking assessment techniques
-=The Power of Signs=
-[[File:Adaptive Profile_Semiotic.png|right|150px]]
-* Understanding of people and their organizations with symbolic representations.
-* Not just a matter of building a language but also of symbols that can be part of a broader picture.
-* Guiding principles and thinking straight inductively and deductively about people and their organization.
-=GRI Research Framework=
-[[File:GRI Model_detailed.png|right|150px]]
-* Framework initial steps and evolutions over the years.
-* Antecedent, independent, and dependent variables
-* Construction of the model. Theories behind the model.
-* Testing the framework, benchmarking techniques, and accelerating growing performance.
+'''Quick Links'''
-===Quick Links===
+[https://wiki.gri.co/index.php/Category:Performance Performance] - [https://wiki.gri.co/index.php/Category:Assessment Individual Characteristics and Assessment Techniques] - [https://wiki.gri.co/index.php/Category:Personality_Assessment Assessment Tools] - [https://wiki.gri.co/index.php/Category:Articles Articles] - [https://wiki.gri.co/index.php/Category:Notes Notes] - [https://wiki.gri.co/index.php/Row_Results Rowing Study W U25 2016]
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